1 – Muhammad b. Ya`qub from Muhammad b. Yahya from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. `Isa from Talha b. Zayd from Abu `Abidillah عليهالسلام. He said: Verily the children of Muslims are branded with Allah, as intercessor and as one whose intercession is accepted (shafi` wa mushaffa`), so when they reach twelve years, good deeds are written for them. And when they reach puberty (al-hulum), sins are written against them.

And as-Saduq also narrated the same in the book at-Tawhid from Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. al-Walid from Muhammad b. al-Hasan as-Saffar from al-`Abbas b. Ma`ruf from Muhammad b. Sinan from Talha b. Zayd.

2 – And in al-Khisal from al-Hasan b. Muhammad as-Sakuni from al-Hadrami from Ibrahim b. Mu`awiya from his father from al-A`mash from Ibn Zhibyan. He said: `Umar came upon an insane woman who had fornicated, so he commanded her stoning. So `Ali عليهالسلام said: Do you not know that the pen has been lifted from three: from the youth until he has a nocturnal emission (or, attains puberty), from the insane until he regains consciousness, and from the sleeper until he awakes?